The hinckley Surname
hinckley Name Meaning and History
English: habitational name from a place in Leicestershire, so
called from the Old English byname H¯nca (a derivative of
Hun ‘bear-cub’) + Old English leah ‘wood’,
‘clearing’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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